Team:UC Davis E/Opportunity

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You MUST have a team description page, a description of the problem you are solving/opportunity you are creating as well as your solution, an executive summary and 3 min elevator pitch video, description and links to any source and market data, and an attributions page. PLEASE keep all of your pages within your teams namespace.

Problem and Opportunity

A significant environmental problem facing the world entails the accumulation of plastic polymer waste products, both on land and offshore. The ecological, political, and economic repercussions of plastic accumulation have affected populations and industries alike in a significant manner, however, the technological development and profitability of investment in the business of plastic degradation has stunted the growth of such an institution. Our project aims to conduct an in depth analysis of the multitude of factors that would influence an industry centered around plastic degradation. Our collegiate iGEM team is currently engaged in producing an E. Coli that degrades PET plastic and goes further to break down byproducts, and we would similarly like to use this as a model for an economic and business analysis. Likewise, we also aim to generate a set of tools and guidelines that future iGEM teams can use to assess the realistic marketability of their project. We would like this toolkit to be applicable to a wide range of products under the field of synthetic biology, with the intent that teams and groups can take the product of laboratory based biological engineering and critically look at its real world application. In short, we wish to make successful commercial endeavors out of scientific academic work.

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-Describe the problem or issue you are researching or aim to solve, including quantifying the magnitude and the consequences of the problem and of your solution.
+A significant environmental problem facing the world entails the accumulation of plastic polymer waste products, both on land and offshore. The ecological, political, and economic repercussions of plastic accumulation have affected populations and industries alike in a significant manner, however, the technological development and profitability of investment in the business of plastic degradation has stunted the growth of such an institution. Our project aims to conduct an in depth analysis of the multitude of factors that would influence an industry centered around plastic degradation. Our collegiate iGEM team is currently engaged in producing an E. Coli that degrades PET plastic and goes further to break down byproducts, and we would similarly like to use this as a model for an economic and business analysis. Likewise, we also aim to generate a set of tools and guidelines that future iGEM teams can use to assess the realistic marketability of their project. We would like this toolkit to be applicable to a wide range of products under the field of synthetic biology, with the intent that teams and groups can take the product of laboratory based biological engineering and critically look at its real world application. In short, we wish to make successful commercial endeavors out of scientific academic work.
-I.e. Every year 200,000 cats die on Moon Base Alpha due to lactose intolerance. A solution to this tragedy has eluded the animal pharmaceutical industry. However, if those 200,000 cats could be saved, it would present a solution to the vermin infestation problem on the moon, reducing space tourists deaths of bubonic plague by 70% within 6 months.